The slow made perfume

Essential oils are divided into these three groups – which explains why we call a full set a ‘piano’. When we create a slow made aroma or perfume we take time to recreate the musicality of how these notes will sound together once the new scent is born. The result will differ from simply adding and blending the different essences. If you listen, you will hear a new melody. We listen to this melody every day because the scent of the blend evolves as the components (‘alive notes’) keep tuning until they reach perfect pitch and play a beautiful symphony. Slow-made creations require observation, synchronisation of the elements and harmonisation processes to transform the mix of several individual ingredients into a new unique essence; a new melody – a dance where flowers and herbs merge with and into each other creating a melody that will make you flight far away.

In addition to the method used for creating the aroma -and unlike another natural perfume- it is not diluted with natural ethanol (alcohol). An Alchemic Perfume is made with a very unique and slow-made base: an spagyric.

The term spagyric etymology is Greek: from spao that means I collect and ageiro meaning I extract, a term probably first coined by Paracelsus*.

It’s a medicinal perfume produced by alchemical procedures. These procedures involve fermentation, distillation and the extraction of mineral components from the ash of the plant.

At its origins, the word spagyric was commonly used synonymous with the word alchemy, however, in more recent times it has often been adopted by alternative medicine theorists and various techniques of holistic medicine. Spagyric most commonly refers to a plant tincture to which has also been added the ash of the calcined plant. The original foundation behind these special herbal tinctures have been that an extract using alcohol could not be expected to contain all the medicinal properties from a living plant, and so the ash or mineral component does.